Zuckerberg: Accepting blame during political crises only invites more attacks
Mark Zuckerberg · The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired · Sep 18, 2024 · at 45:00
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reflects on Meta's public relations response following the 2016 US presidential election.
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“If you take responsibility for things, because you think it's a corporate crisis, not a political crisis and your view is like, okay, I'm, like, I'm gonna take responsibility for all this stuff. Like, and people are basically, like, blaming social media and the tech industry for, like, all these different things in society, and if we're saying, okay, we're gonna really, like, do our part to go fixes, like, this stuff, I know there were a bunch of people who just took that and were like, oh, you're taking responsibility for that? Let me, like, kick you for more stuff. And honestly, I think we should have been firmer about and clearer about which of the things we actually felt like we had a part in and which ones we didn't.”
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